Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A typical E.C.E. class, a descendant of the British "open-school" concept, replaces a front-and-center teacher and rows of students' desks with scattered work areas, each devoted to a different subject. Lessons in reading, math and, say, art may thus take place simultaneously. Teachers have found the...
As a result, the presentation is ignorant, cluttered and coarse, and it trashes the sculpture. Works that need to be walked around and experienced in three dimensions are stranded on ledges and behind glass, so that they can only be seen frontally. When this is inflicted on pieces like the...
The movie, which does have an energetic performance by O'Toole, represents a particularly cretinous kind of intellectual masochism. We are meant to believe that Friday's tribe of cannibals represents some grander order of cultural purity free, one supposes, from the debauching influences of conscience and thought...
IN THE beginning you're spying on a massive institutional steel kitchen--squat black ovens, double-doored refrigerators, towering coffee dispensers, lumpy garbage, crates awry, King Arthur flour, sturdy crockery--as an electronic overture filters in with disconcerting urgency. Most of whatever's out there, wherever you came from, is...
No one clapped or cheered at liftoff. We climbed steeply into a cloud bank. By the time we were out of it, our speed was nearly that of a conventional jetliner. Aside from a brief sinking feeling shortly after takeoff the flight was remarkably smooth in accelerating. A "mach meter...